, is charged with murder, felonious assault, reckless homicide and two misdemeanor counts of dereliction of duty. He appeared wearing a head covering Monday for a pre-trial status hearing before Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Stephen McIntosh, where his attorneys asked to postpone Coy's trial, which was set for April 24.
McIntosh agreed to postpone the trial indefinitely, and set a status hearing for July 12 to check in on Coy's condition and ability to go to trial.Mark Collins, one of Coy's attorneys, told The Dispatch Coy is undergoing treatment for classical Hodgkin lymphoma through June. During that treatment, Collins said Coy cannot adequately help prepare for his own defense.
"Postponing is the appropriate thing to do," Collins told The Dispatch."Both sides were ready to go to trial, but these things happen."The survival rate for Hodgkin lymphoma is relatively good. According to the, the 5-year survival rate for all patients with the disease is about 89%, but factors such as the extent of the cancer and a person's age can worsen survival odds.
Ohio Assistant Attorney General James Lowe, one of the prosecutors on Coy's case declined to comment to The Dispatch after the hearing.exiting a garage at a homeCoy and officer Amy Detweiler had responded to a nonemergency noise call about a vehicle repeatedly turning on and off. Coy had prior conversation with Hill, who went into a garage at the home just before Detweiler arrived.
Body camera footage shows the officers were walking up the driveway when Hill emerged from the dark, open garage with an illuminated cellphone in his raised left hand. Coy opened fire and mortally wounded Hill. Neither officer turned on their body cameras before the shooting and the body camera technology Columbus police had at that time automatically captured the previous minute of video from the incident, but without audio.